OK, some thoughts on marriage in this little mini-series set off by reflecting on allegory and the Song of Songs.
Contemporary Western attitudes to marriage are complex and, at times, contradictory. On the one hand, marriage is legally and socially less significant – a lifestyle choice ignored by increasing numbers of people. Yet, on the other hand, it is a status vigorously pursued as a legal and human right for those formerly excluded from a male-female heterosexual understanding of marriage.
Much confusion arises from different understandings of what marriage actually is. Modern views of marriage are, at key points, historically…
